2 Kings 18:25

Have I now come up without LORD against this place to destroy it? LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.

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In The King James Version

Am I now come up without the LORD against this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.

In Context

24How then can thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

26Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah, and Joah, said to Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language, for we understand it. And do not speak with us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people

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Cross References

1 Kings 13:18And he said to him, I also am a prophet as thou are. And a [heavenly] agent spoke to me by the word of LORD, saying, Bring him back with thee into thy house that he may eat bread and drink water. [But] he lied to him.

2 Kings 19:22Whom have thou defied and blasphemed? And against whom have thou exalted thy voice and lifted up thine eyes on high? [Even] against the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 10:5Ho, Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!

Amos 3:6Shall the trumpet be blown in a city, and the people not be afraid? Shall evil befall a city, and LORD has not done it?

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 18:18-37

Rab-Shakeh's Blasphemous Speech. ( b. c. 710.) 17 And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rab-shakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field. 18 And when they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of… Read the whole commentary →

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